内容摘要：Where the government has a bigger challenge is to convince its own MPs that the level of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - which are not means tested and are made to people who

Where the government has a bigger challenge is to convince its own MPs that the level of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - which are not means tested and are made to people who

We are also told that Haigh had told Sir Keir about the specifics of this case when he first appointed her to the shadow cabinet in 2020.It's understood she didn't tell the government’s propriety and ethics team about her fraud conviction when she joined the cabinet in July.

They asked her specifically about unspent convictions. Her offence was spent.This typically means the conviction remains on the offender’s criminal record for life, but they don’t have to reveal it in a job application.Haigh believed, we're told, that having disclosed what had happened to Sir Keir in opposition, this was sufficient.

It's also understood she was unaware of any investigation by her former employer, Aviva, involving more than one mobile phone, as reported by The Times.Haigh’s team have not denied this, but have not been drawn on it either.

Aviva is not commenting on the saga.

At the very least, this would have been the subject of even more intense further questions if she was still in the cabinet this morning rather than being on the backbenches.Pepfar was launched in 2003 by then US President George W Bush and its funding is distributed via the US government's main overseas aid agency USAID.

It has been regarded as a ground-breaking scheme that has enabled some of the world's poorest people to access anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) and has saved more than 25 million lives worldwide.A 90-day freeze on US foreign aid payments instituted by President Donald Trump on his first day in office last month has already upended the global aid system.

In reaction to the raft of cuts, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) issued a stark warning on Friday."I have to say that the world is playing with fire," Dr Jean Kaseya told the BBC.